khaled mussawi

  • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology

Education & Training

  • MD Medical University of South Carolina

Representative Publications

1. Moussawi K, Kalivas PW & Lee JW. (2016) Abstinence from drug dependence after bilateral Globus Pallidus hypoxic ischemic injury. Biological Psychiatry. 80(9): e79e80.
2. Moussawi K, Zhou W, Shen H, Reichel CM, See RE, Carr DB & Kalivas PW. (2011) Reversing cocaine-induced synaptic potentiation provides enduring protection from relapse. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108 (1), 385-390.
3. Moussawi K, Pacchioni A, Moran M, Olive MF, Gass JT, Lavin A & Kalivas PW. (2009) N-Acetylcysteine reverses cocaine-induced metaplasticity. Nature Neuroscience. 12, 182-189.

Research Interests

Neuromodulation: TMS, DBS, tFUS; Substance use disorders; Reward circuits

Graduate Program

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